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Item Details
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GREATER BRITAIN: VOLUME 2
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| By: |
Charles Wentworth Dilke |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0511702574 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780511702570 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 August, 2010 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - North American History |
| Description: |
A young Cambridge graduate tours the English-speaking world and describes Victorian colonial culture and the British legacy in America. |
| Synopsis: |
As a young man, Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843-1911), the Cambridge-educated Radical politician, spent two years touring the English-speaking world. This two-volume illustrated account of his travels was published in 1868, the year in which he first became a member of Parliament. Volume 2 opens as he leaves America in late 1866 for Australia and South Asia in search of British influences. This second leg of his journey confirmed for Dilke that England not only existed elsewhere beyond Great Britain, but that it spoke to the whole world through its cultural and societal offshoots across the entire globe. His discoveries of traditional English customs and lifestyles in the farther reaches of Australia, India and even Russia are recounted with pleasure and surprise. The book sheds light on British colonial culture at the height of the empire, through the eyes of a youthful, left-wing observer. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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